On 12/3/2010 5:48 AM, Chris Hart wrote:
The majority of our work with OpenSim to date has been working on management
tools for our customers - groups have been the number one missing feature
from our grids for quite some time, and we wanted to do it right. We have
not had a lot of time to give back to the community over the past few years,
but we are strong supporters of the OpenSimulator project, and we felt this
was a good opportunity to give something back. I would like to thank Kurt
Evenopoel for his work on our module - he is a super smart developer who has
done a great job on this.
Thanks, Chris.
We appreciate free of charge, open source contributions to the ecosystem
of the project more than anything. It's great when individuals and
commercial organizations do that. So thank you for your plan to
contribute another groups implementation. If it works better for you
than the existing groups implementations, I'm sure others will find it
useful too.
Whether those contributions become part of the core OpenSim distribution
or not is another matter. When people put that forward as a concrete
proposal, we have a process for deciding. As Justin said, long-term
maintenance is a big issue. Another issue is whether those contributions
fulfill the project's goal of having a multi-platform core. A third
issue is how well-integrated those contributions are with the rest of
OpenSim. There are more parameters for the decision, but those are the
three basic ones.
One of the reasons why flotsam groups isn't part of OpenSim core is
because it requires Apache+PHP and therefore it doesn't work out of the
box with a standalone simulator. We've always tried to make core be the
minimum necessary to run a standalone and a barebones grid, while making
it have all the right hooks for people to scale it up however they like.
Diva / Crista
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